AIR: Bombers for Britain

Near Cardington, Ohio, a British Lockheed bomber cracked up and burned. Two young U.S. Army Air Forces lieutenants died in her blackened hulk. Few miles away, on the Army's Patterson Field, another Lockheed, with the red-white-&-blue cockade of the R.A.F. on her camouflaged sides, ground-looped on a take-off and burned as her pilots skipped out of danger. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field four Douglas DB75 whisked in from the west in formation, were landed by their khaki-clad pilots as nice as you please.

By a few such signs the U.S. public learned last...

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